

Have you surveyed your 32 bit apps for replacements since none of them will function on Catalina? Meanwhile, have you prepared for the upgrade? Have you made a backup in case disaster prevails? Have you perhaps run 1st Aid on your hard drive to make sure that there are no issues before you install. Keep in mind that Sierra or High Sierra* are also huge files and will take a long time to download. As His Foulness, the Croc God has said, the Installer app will appear in the apps folder when the download completes.īelieve it or not, we get this type of cry for help often because these are huge files and take a long time to download, especially if your ISP has restrictions or throttling for downloads. If it downloads in the background, when the download finishes, the app will open by itself and present front & center for you to allow it to install Catalina or to quit the app to install later.

It will take a considerable amount of time to download, even in the background and depending on your ISP download speed.

I got 12.2 for iTunes by downloading off of the Apple website as per someone on another form recommended, and a few f the third party apps have their own unique update app that will probably work, but for the majority I have to use the App Store and I can't so I'm stuck.The macOS Catalina Installer app is a 5 GB file. I clicked the "not now" option on one of the pop-ups and now they don't show up and neither do the restart notifications and it goes straight to the installation bar flash, (which svcks because I wanted to try restarting using the notification for update installs instead of the standard way to see if there were any changes). After doing this for an update, the notifications would stop and it would just flash the installing bar as mentioned previously. At one point I had an issue where I would click update and it would have a popup saying something about downloading and restarting after the update was finished, I would click download & update and then immediately the restart warning would pop up, and I would tell it to restart later. Now, when click update (they are now both in the need to be updated and recently updated lists) it'll flash "installing" for a second and then go back to having the update button and it will be added to "recently updated" again. I will click "update" it'll gray out and then, after a restart, it says it was updated, but it wasn't. All of my software updates, including those for third-party apps have this issue. I have the same issue, and it's not limited to iTunes.
